Live Play Data

Sword of Vengeance

· Artifact — Equipment · Bloomburrow (BLB)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

727

Decks Running

409

Median Cast Turn

Drawn → Played

73%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=127

14%

17%

15%

42%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 6 P25 4 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 17% (18 / 127 cast on T3) Cast same turn as drawn 34%

The "good card" funnel

727 brought · 373 players

Brought to game

727

Ever drawn

174

Reached battlefield

127

Still on board at game end

104

Once cast, 82% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -3.7pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=118) , vs 23% when it never left the library (n=471).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=42).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +4.4pp; 95% confidence interval -3.7pp to +12.5pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

189 instances

2.6%

Library

55.0%

Battlefield

16.4%

Graveyard

6.3%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Zndrsplt, Eye of Wisdom 31 decks
2 Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer 15 decks
3 Chishiro, the Shattered Blade 15 decks
4 Arahbo, Roar of the World 13 decks
5 Zurgo Helmsmasher 13 decks
6 Kotis, the Fangkeeper 12 decks
7 Captain America, First Avenger 11 decks
8 Ekthi, Contaminator Priest 11 decks
9 Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms 11 decks
10 Okaun, Eye of Chaos 11 decks

Card text

Sword of Vengeance

Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature gets +2/+0 and has first strike, vigilance, trample, and haste. Equip {3}

Bloomburrow (BLB) · Rare · Illustrated by Dan Murayama Scott

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 720,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.